LONDON (Sputnik) — UK Prime Minister David Cameron revealed his financial income in the past year, including some $282,000 given as a gift by his mother, amid the public’s calls for his resignation over the offshore scandal, local media reported.
On April 3, the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung exposed the alleged involvement of a number of former and current world leaders, among others, in offshore schemes by publishing materials it claimed came from Mossack Fonseca. The leak suggested that Cameron’s late father, Ian Cameron, had been a director of the offshore investment fund Blairmore Holdings, run from the Bahamas.
The UK leader also inherited over $400,000 following his father’s death, the media outlet added.
Cameron’s release of financial data follows Saturday’s rally of thousands of Britons near the prime minister’s residence on Downing Street, who demanded his resignation after the public learned he was profiting from his father’s offshore company.
The UK prime minister said on Thursday he had sold his share worth some $42,000 in the Blairmore Holdings five months before assuming office. Cameron insisted that his father’s fund was not set up to avoid taxes and stressed that he had nothing to hide about his financial affairs.
